Invasion of the Androids

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on


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According to a New York Times tech blog,Google Android is making a bid to take over the smartphone market by the end of this year with probably 18+ devices that use their open-source operating system scheduled for 2009 release.

These Android units will be made by perhaps nine separate manufacturers. Right now, it is just HTC (T-Mobile G1 and HTC Magic for Europe), but add Garmin, Samsung, Sony Ericsson to the invasion force.

This invasion won't be an easy one though. Google expects the tougher competition for U.S. carriers to slow the adoption rate here compared to Europe. (The second half of the year and especially the end-of-year holidays are their big sales time.)

Android phones won't just roll over the competition. BlackBerry (Research In Motion), the new Palm Pre, and talk of a new Apple iPhone model that might be announced in early June will all offer a strong defense.

Android software is also up against Microsoft's latest version of their Windows Mobile software, Apple's iPhone 3.0 OS, whatever might be new in the BlackBerry line and Palm's new webOS. To further fill the crowded skies of mobile signals, Nokia has a Symbian platform and there are also some Linux-based handsets that will appear by year end.

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